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Sunday, September 5, 2010 ~ Scripture Reading: Luke 14:25-33

Timothy Brown, writing in Perspectives, says: I remember a trip to the hospital just a few years ago. I was there to visit a beautiful young man from Spring Lake, Michigan, whose life was being robbed one blood cell at a time by a vicious and unrelenting leukemia. Because he was so weakened, I knelt next to his bed to look at him eyeball to eyeball. I said quietly, "Hi, Tim," and he responded faintly, "Hi, Tim." There followed an awkward pause because I didn't exactly know what to say....

Finally, the lad broke the deafening silence by saying gently, "I have learned something."

Now I knew at least this much - you never trifle with the last words of a

dying person, so I said, "Tell me, what have you learned?"

He said, again very faintly, "I have learned that life isn't like a DVD." Perplexed, I said, "I don't get it. What do you mean?"

He said, drawing his next breath in pain, "Life isn't like a DVD - you can't fast-forward the bad parts." As I knelt there, fighting back the tears and trying to take it all in, he interrupted my awkward silence again by asking, "You know what else I learned?"

I said, "No, I really don't. Please tell me."

"I have learned," he whispered, "that Jesus Christ is in every frame, and right now it's just enough." —Timothy Merrill

Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for being in every moment of my life. Thank you for your presence today. You are indeed my sufficiency for what comes my way.

 In your name. Amen.